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Three years after moving from administrator of CMS to lead health insurance lobbying group America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), Marilyn Tavenner has announced plans to retire effective June 1, with AHIP’s chief operating officer Matt Eyles taking over her role as president and CEO.

With Milwaukee’s Aurora Health Care and Chicago’s Advocate Healthcare expecting to clear the final regulatory hurdle for their proposed merger, the two have lined up the leadership team that will report to the co-CEOs of the new system.

Health IT leaders, professionals and vendors saw few negatives in the new My HealthE Data initiative announced by CMS at the HIMSS18 conference in Las Vegas, even though CMS Administrator Seema Verma, MPH, warned that the agency would crack down on information blocking by vendors or providers.

When Thomas McAfee, MHA, took over as president of Lake Forest Hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, in 2006, he already knew the existing facility, opened in 1940, needed to be replaced. Nearly 12 years later, after an extensive planning process and a change in ownership as the hospital became affiliated with Northwestern Medicine, the new $400 million facility is ready to welcome patients.

Tens of thousands of healthcare professionals will be heading to the 2018 Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference in Las Vegas in a few days. Last year&rsquo;s conference was dominated by talk about the promise of artificial intelligence and what Congress was going to do with the Affordable Care Act&mdash;so what will health IT leaders be talking about this time around?

Randy McCleese, MSIS, MBA, the chief information officer at Methodist Hospital in Henderson, Kentucky, was selected as the 2017 CIO of the Year by College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), with the groups specifically citing his IT advocacy on behalf of smaller, rural providers.

2018 has already been a year full of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, and those technologies are sure to receive a lot of attention March 5-9 at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas. &nbsp;

Financial challenges remained the biggest concern for hospital CEOs, according to a survey conducted by the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). But, in a shift from prior years, personnel shortages were a bigger worry for healthcare leaders than issues of patient safety and quality.

Less than a year after ending his 16-year tenure at the helm of General Electric (GE), Jeff Immelt has been named chairman of Watertown, Massachusetts-based technology company Athenahealth, which cited his experience in expanding GE Healthcare and a &ldquo;deep understanding of system economics and patient outcomes&rdquo; after leading such a large payer of health benefits.

Charlotte, North Carolina-based Carolinas HealthCare System is renaming itself Atrium Health, a rebranding the 40-hospital system said reflects it growth from a Charlotte-centric provider to a regional powerhouse.

In 2000, less than 25 percent of U.S. hospitals with more than 50 beds had palliative care teams. By 2015, that number had jumped to 75 percent, which, according to a study published in Health Affairs, can be largely attributed to training and leadership initiatives.

Andy Slavitt, the last administrator of CMS under President Barack Obama, has announced the launch of a new group bringing together former politicians, healthcare executives and regulators to advocate for bipartisan changes in health policy.